Employment Rights Bill | Bereavement Leave to be granted to parents who suffer miscarriages

Bereavement leave will be given to parents who suffer a miscarriage, as part of updated workers’ rights plans.

Mothers and their partners are currently eligible for bereavement leave if they lose a child or have a stillbirth after 24 weeks of pregnancy.

But now as first reported by The Guardian, those experiencing a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks’ gestation will also be given the right to two weeks of bereavement leave.